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Still Another Bowl: A Henry James Souvenir

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Still Another Bowl: A Henry James Souvenir
Howard R. Wolf
Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo
Howard R. Wolf is Emeritus Professor of English and Senior Fellow at SUNY-Buffalo and the author of three memoirs, a novel (Broadway Serenade), personal essays, and many short stories.A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey and South Africa,he is now putting together a collection ofstories, EXILES BY STARLIGHT, and a play, HOME AT THE END OF THEDAY. Mr. Wolf is a graduate of Horace Mann School, Amherst College(BA), Columbia (MA), and The University of Michigan (PH.D) where hewon aHopwood for fiction. He lives in Amherst, New York where he writes and cultivates a small garden.
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Readers suggest a miniature replica of the Henry James “golden bowl” should be sold in the new Trump Landmark gift shop. As Chair of the Design Committee for … Read more

Boney Fingers: Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking?

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Jim Hightower
Jim Hightower
National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the book, "Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow," Jim Hightower has spent three decades battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks.

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower is a modern-day Johnny Appleseed, spreading the message of progressive populism all across the American grassroots.

He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations and on the web.
Jim Hightower
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“Work your fingers to the bone — whadda ya get? Boney Fingers.” This 1960’s Hoyt Axton folk song mocking the vaunted virtue of working hard is being sung … Read more

New Tech Audits Vote for Suspicious Citizens

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New Tech Audits Vote for Suspicious Citizens
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider lives in Florida. Retired, he sometimes gets a good laugh following a few authoritarian politicians who call the Sunshine State home.
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New app produces audits that will stand up in the court of public opinion and in legal hearings, says CEO. “It’s bad enough that millions of Americans don’t … Read more

Another Bowl

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Another Bowl
Howard R. Wolf
Emeritus Professor of English at SUNY-Buffalo
Howard R. Wolf is Emeritus Professor of English and Senior Fellow at SUNY-Buffalo and the author of three memoirs, a novel (Broadway Serenade), personal essays, and many short stories.A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey and South Africa,he is now putting together a collection ofstories, EXILES BY STARLIGHT, and a play, HOME AT THE END OF THEDAY. Mr. Wolf is a graduate of Horace Mann School, Amherst College(BA), Columbia (MA), and The University of Michigan (PH.D) where hewon aHopwood for fiction. He lives in Amherst, New York where he writes and cultivates a small garden.
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Trump gets a fitting landmark, another bowl in a rehabbed former Queens police station near a red-lined apartment complex. Now that the Department of the Interior has designated … Read more

The Jerry Duncan Show Interviews Fred Flintstone and George Jetson

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The Jerry Duncan Show Interviews Fred Flintstone and George Jetson
Dean Kaner
Dean B. Kaner is a playwright and screenwriter, having co-produced and co-written plays for the stage with performances in New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Phoenix and Memphis. Check out The Jerry Duncan Show on YouTube, as well as on Instagram, and the sketch comedy A Bit of Biden (on Instagram) and at @abitofbiden on TikTok.
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Wherein our intrepid talk radio show host interviews Fred Flintstone of Bedrock and George Jetson of Orbit City. ANNOUNCER Live from under a rock in your backyard, it’s … Read more

Ripping the Headlines Today, 8/9/22

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Ripping the Headlines Today, 8/9/22
Paul Lander
Paul Lander is not sure which he is proudest of -- winning the Noble Peace Prize or sending Congolese gynecologist Dr. Denis Mukwege to accept it on his behalf, bringing to light the plight of African women in war-torn countries. In his non-daydreaming hours, Paul has written for Weekly Humorist, National Lampoon, American Bystander, Huff Post Comedy, McSweeney's, Bombeck Writers Workshop Blog and the Humor Times, written and/or produced for multiple TV shows and written standup material that's been performed on Maher, The Daily Show, Colbert, Kimmel, etc. Now, on to Paul's time-commanding Special Forces in Khandahar… (See all of Paul's "Ripping the Headlines Today" columns here.)
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Making fun of the headlines today, so you don’t have to The news, even that about the a “woke James Bond,” doesn’t need to be complicated and confusing; … Read more

Top 10 Things Keeping Me Up at Night: Sleepless ’til September!

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Top 10 Things Keeping Me Up at Night: Sleepless ’til September!
Marilyn Sands
Marilyn Sands is a former 80's Stand-Up Comic & Comic Booker.Sold Jokes to Joan Rivers & lesser lights.A Contributor to "Humor Times Magazine" while pitching her 2 Madcap Screenplays & a Stage Play. Her newly published book "CAN YOU PEE OUTDOORS" On-Line Dating Straight Linescan be purchased now in Paperback & ebook on amazon.com/dp/1733487409 And, proud to announce her latest published Memoir..."OWNING THE STAGE, RENTING THE BALLS"!My Life as a Funny Girlis available right now on amazon.com/dp/1733487417See...you don't have to be embarrassed to ask for the Title at a Book Store - just CLICK!
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It’s keeping me up at night, counting sheep ’til the Jan 6th Committee returns in September & they haul in the whole frigin’ bunch of Swamp Things! I … Read more

Meeting with a Priest

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Meeting with a Priest
Lawrence Millman
Lawrence Millman is the author of 18 books, including such titles as Last Places, A Kayak Full of Ghosts, Our Like Will Not Be There Again, Hiking to Siberia, At the End of the World, Fungipedia, and — forthcoming — The Last Speaker of Bear. Shop for his books at Thrift Books and other book sellers.
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Walking in Manhattan with my friend God, we had a chance meeting with a priest, who asked for forgiveness. As it happens, I wasn’t the only person in … Read more

Frontline Doctors Founder Denied “Freedom Drugs” in Federal Prison

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Frontline Doctors Founder Denied “Freedom Drugs” in Federal Prison
Steve Schneider
Steve Schneider lives in Florida. Retired, he sometimes gets a good laugh following a few authoritarian politicians who call the Sunshine State home.
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Federal prison authorities stymie founder of “America’s Frontline Doctors.” Federal prison authorities won’t let the founder of “America’s Frontline Doctors” fill her “freedom prescriptions” to treat Covid-19, the … Read more

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